Year: 2010
KSAS scores big with ACLS New Faculty Fellows program
May 10, 2010
The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and four of its recent graduates are benefiting from a new initiative addressing the tough job market facing today’s young PhDs. The American Council of Learned Societies’ New Faculty Fellows program is providing two-year positions, with annual stipends of $50,000, to 50 recently minted doctors of the humanities […]
Johns Hopkins to unveil Center for Biotechnology Education
May 10, 2010
The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences’ Advanced Academic Programs will unveil the Center for Biotechnology Education this week at its fifth annual biotechnology research symposium, to be held on the university’s Montgomery County Campus. The center will expand the scope of Johns Hopkins’ biotechnology education by adding symposia, workshops, youth development programs and noncredit […]
Craig, Yau of SoM elected to National Academy of Sciences
May 10, 2010
Nancy L. Craig, a professor of molecular biology and genetics, and King-Wai Yau, a professor of neuroscience and ophthalmology, both in the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, are among 72 scientists nationwide newly elected to membership in the National Academy of Sciences, an honorary society that advises the government on scientific matters. “Johns Hopkins […]
James B. West of WSE receives Benjamin Franklin Medal
May 10, 2010
James B. West, a researcher in the Whiting School’s Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been awarded the 2010 Benjamin Franklin Medical Award in Electrical Engineering. The prestigious award was one of 11 presented this year by the Franklin Institute to honor accomplishments in science, technology and business. Since 1824, the Philadelphia-based institute, founded […]
Engineering students seek to solve real-world challenges
May 10, 2010
During two engineering design showcases held last week on the Homewood and East Baltimore campuses, many Whiting School students demonstrated that they were aiming for the stars. Sometimes, literally: One team built mechanical legs to help a future spacecraft land gently on the moon. Other teams targeted the moon figuratively by designing devices that may […]
Charting ocean currents with a cutting-edge supercomputer
May 10, 2010
This is part of an occasional series on Johns Hopkins research funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. If you have a study you would like to be considered for inclusion, contact Lisa De Nike at lde@jhu.edu. Using a $736,000 grant administered through the federal stimulus act, a Johns Hopkins earth scientist […]
Language of instruction not most important for English-learners
May 10, 2010
A new study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University’s Center for Research and Reform in Education could change the way schools in the United States teach nonnative speakers to read and speak in English. The traditional argument surrounding the instruction of English-language learners has been whether English immersion or bilingual approaches work the best. But the […]
Academy of Clinical Excellence hosts patient care symposium
May 10, 2010
Last year, Johns Hopkins introduced a new initiative—the first of its kind—to recognize clinically excellent academic physicians who have achieved a level of mastery in communication and interpersonal skills, professionalism and humanism, and negotiation of the health care system. Called the Miller-Coulson Academy of Clinical Excellence, it is based at Bayview Medical Center. The academy […]
Spouses caring for partners with dementia at risk of same fate
May 10, 2010
Husbands or wives who care for spouses with dementia are six times more likely to develop the memory-impairing condition than those whose spouses don’t have it, according to results of a 12-year study led by Johns Hopkins, Utah State and Duke universities. The increased risk that the researchers saw among caregivers was on par with […]
Despite tests, high blood pressure hard to recognize in children
May 10, 2010
A Johns Hopkins Children’s Center study of 2,500 patient records suggests that medical staff fail to check a child’s blood pressure a fifth of the time and, in those whose blood pressure they do check, they are not recognizing what constitutes an abnormal reading. Researchers say the consequences are that pediatricians and nurses may be missing […]